Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin
...mental discovery that someday may help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas, medical researchers here have reported that they have engineered adult stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood to produce insulin. The rese...Weizmann Institute scientists develop a general 'control switch' for protein activity
...s. For example, the discovery of insulin’s role in diabetes paved the way for the development of a treatment based on insulin injections. Yet, despite enormous research efforts led by scientists worldwide, the cellular function of numerous proteins is still unknown. To reveal this function, scientists perform...Risk of stroke doubles if diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes
Individuals diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes are at double the risk of having a stroke compared...ithin the first five years of treatment for Type 2 diabetes and more than doubles the rate of occurrence. For this study, the researchers entered 12,272 subjec......xperimental drug prevented and treated both type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis in laboratory mice that had be...Diseases. "This drug is very effective in treating diabetes and heart disease in mice at the same time, and we believe it may turn out to be protective against ...